User 151829

It's Getting Harder to Keep on Truckin'

Long distance trucking has no future. Oil is in short supply and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. A majority of this fuel must be imported and is thus a national security risk. Trucks are very inefficient over long distances. They use too much fuel whose costs are passed onto the consumer. Burning fossil fuels is also detrimental to the environment and causes global warming. We must as a country make a societal shift to rail transportation for long distance freight transportation and passenger transportation whether it be within a city or across the nation. Trucking will always have a purpose, however as the above poster suggested, only for short and medium distances.

Time for an Oil Change: Think American Alternative Energy

It's the energy source of the future because you would need He3 fusion reactors to generate enough electricity to do so.